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noun

Presidency n. (pl. presidencies)

The function or condition of one who presides; superintendence; control and care.

The office of president; as, Washington was elected to the presidency.

The term during which a president holds his office; as, during the presidency of Madison.

One of the three great divisions of British India, the Bengal, Madras, and Bombay Presidencies, each of which had a council of which its governor was president.

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Etymology of 'Presidency'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... of State and Head of Government—President Arnold KOLLER (1990 calendar year; presidency rotates annually); Vice President Flavio COTTI (term runs concurrently with that ...

— The 1990 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... of black shadows—he did not sleep at all—was really the beginning of the end. He forgot the presidency that was to be handed out to him; he forgot everything but the horrid canker that gnawed into his heart ...

— Jane Cable • George Barr McCutcheon

... "Times." There is no chemical solvent like gunpowder. Even the Mexican War, utterly opposed to the moral convictions of the majority of Northern men, swept them away in such a current that the very party which opposed it could find no path to the Presidency but for its chief hero. Had the present outbreak occurred far less favorably than it has, had the discretion of President Lincoln been much less, or that of Mr. Davis much greater, still the unanimity would have been merely a question ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, Issue 45, July, 1861 • Various

... He had been the Provost of Trinity College, and the President of the Royal Irish Academy. Three candidates were put forward by their respective friends for the vacant Presidency. One was Humphrey Lloyd, the son of the late Provost, and the two others were Hamilton and Archbishop Whately. Lloyd from the first urged strongly the claims of Hamilton, and deprecated the putting forward of his own name. Hamilton in like manner desired to ...

— Great Astronomers • R. S. Ball

... tribes, each tribe presided thirty-five days, or five weeks; when the number was afterward increased to twelve, the period of the presidency was one month. ...

— Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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